Archive for July, 2010

john-bernard

July 29th, 2010 by john-bernard

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So the countdown is on – Friday 24th September is the official date for the 2010 Ubuntu Hardware Summit (UHS) taking place in Taipei for the second year in succession. UHS is an industry event for the OEM community based in Taipei where we expose their engineers to Ubuntu and help them learn more about

In 2009 over 170 attendees were present at the event and this years’ show looks likely to top the 200 mark.

With topics ranging from enabling hardware, QA, developing with Ubuntu, advantages of working with the Canonical engineering team, the day long summit should prove to be a must visit event.

John Bernard

gerry-carr

July 20th, 2010 by gerry-carr

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Every once in a while you have a good day. One such was last Tuesday in the unlikely environment of a night club in Brick Lane in the middle of the day where we held the inaugural ‘Ubuntu in Business’ event in conjunction with the UK community.

The genesis of the idea came from a request from the leaders of the UK LoCo for an event that would reach out to all to the system administrators, consultants and others in the Ubuntu community who deal with a challenge that we sometimes overlook – how do they persuade their colleagues/bosses/clients to pursue a full or partial open source policy in their company?

Seemed like a good idea. But we didn’t want to hold the same corporate, lecture-style event that is instantly forgotten. Plus there were lots of elements of open source events that we enjoyed and wanted to keep. Short open mic talks, long demos and panel discussions. We came up with the following agenda.

How did it go? We packed the place out even with a 50% drop off rate (the curse of the free event but we planned for it). The content was better than I hoped which is a great credit to our guests from Oxford Archaeological, Akuna, Alfresco, DSNetworks, LikeWise, Open Learning Centre, Publicus and from the great Alan Pope of the UK community. Canonical spoke to the value that Ubuntu Advantage can bring businesses. The combined effect as they spoke about real deployments on Ubuntu in UK businesses was much more powerful in advocating the use of Ubuntu than either Canonical or the community could possibly have given alone.

From conversation and feedback those in attendance found it really useful. We aired the issues with open source and in a different post I will try and consolidate some of those arguments. We hope and expect that attendees will return with stronger arguments and more exposure to how peers are deploying this technology today. We also how the reassurance of the services from Canonical and partners was apparent.

So huge thanks are due to James Thomas and the Alans Lord, Pope and Bell. We will run the event again at a date soon to be fixed. And we will be coming to a town near you. Stay tuned. Oh there is some video thanks to the guys at DS Networks.